Summary

Chapter 26 is titled “The Eyewitnesses: 'Government Exhibit No. 14.'” Two witnesses testified they saw Vincent and Choi arrive and sit on the curb outside McDonald's. They then saw Ebens's car pull into a nearby parking lot and saw two white men and a Black man emerge. They knew the Black man was Jimmy Perry. They heard Perry tell an officer the men paid him 20 dollars to help find the Chinese man. Perry testified that Nitz gave him 20 dollars. They all saw Vincent and Choi. Perry recognized Cotton and warned Ebens and Nitz of the officer present. That did not stop the men. Perry saw Nitz grab Vincent and saw Ebens swing the bat. A man named Harold Fitzgerald was driving home from a baseball game when he saw the fight. He did not talk to police that night but later...